Poetics of Work
Translated from French by Sophie Lewis.
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- Paperback published on 07/04/2021
- Page count: 105 pages
- ISBN: 9781838014131
Synopsis
From the acclaimed author of Blue Self-Portrait comes a blistering new novel, written and set during the state of emergency declared in France in the wake of the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris. In the beautiful and traditionally conservative city of Lyon, police and protestors against new labour laws clash in the streets. Lefebvre's anonymous narrator is a poet existing on a diet of cannabis, bananas and books on oppression under the Third Reich. Drawn by the spectre of an overbearing father and spooked by the liveliness of the local far right, they are torn between the push to find a job and the pull to write. The result is this troubling account of how nationalism feeds off late capitalism; a semi-serious treatise in ten lessons, addressed to young poets, and survival guide for the wilfully idle.
About the author
Noémi Lefebvre is a French writer. She studied music and politics, eventually becoming a political scientist at the Instituts d'études politiques of Grenoble II.
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